Anna Mae Aquash
Anna Mae Aquash was a Mi'kmaq activist, born in 1945, who became a member of the American Indian Mouvement in the early 1970's. She was murdered in 1975, and the case of her murder is still going on today, over 35 years later.
Anna Mae Aquash's body was found on the side of a road in 1976. An autopsy was done and it was thought that she died of exposure, and since no one could identify her, she was buried as an anonymous corpse. Her hands had been cut of and sent to Wasington for finger printing, and a week later the body was identified as Anna. Her family then requested for her body to be dug up and for a second autopsy to be done. This autopsy revealed that she had been shot in the back of the head, and her death was officially labled a homocide.
In March 2003, 28 years later, Arlo Looking Cloud and John Graham were indicted for the murder of Anna Mae Aquash. They were both later convicted and then sentenced to life in prison. There are many other people who may have been part of the murder and there have been other charges made as well. People believe that Anna was killed because she knew to much information on a previous murder.
The murder of Anna Mae Aquash will never be fully resolved, but she will always be remebered as a powerful woman who fought for the rights of her people.
Anna Mae Aquash's body was found on the side of a road in 1976. An autopsy was done and it was thought that she died of exposure, and since no one could identify her, she was buried as an anonymous corpse. Her hands had been cut of and sent to Wasington for finger printing, and a week later the body was identified as Anna. Her family then requested for her body to be dug up and for a second autopsy to be done. This autopsy revealed that she had been shot in the back of the head, and her death was officially labled a homocide.
In March 2003, 28 years later, Arlo Looking Cloud and John Graham were indicted for the murder of Anna Mae Aquash. They were both later convicted and then sentenced to life in prison. There are many other people who may have been part of the murder and there have been other charges made as well. People believe that Anna was killed because she knew to much information on a previous murder.
The murder of Anna Mae Aquash will never be fully resolved, but she will always be remebered as a powerful woman who fought for the rights of her people.
Anna Mae Aquash Quotes:
- "I'm Indian all the way, and always will be. I'm not going to stop fighting until I die, and I hope I'm a good example of a human being and of my tribe."
- "These white people think this country belongs to them. They don't realize that they are only in charge right now because there's more of them than there are of us. The whole country changed with only a handful of raggedy-ass pilgrims that came over here in the 1500s. And it can take a handful of raggedy-ass Indians to do the same, and I intend to be one of those raggedy-ass Indians."
- "I'm Indian all the way, and always will be. I'm not going to stop fighting until I die, and I hope I'm a good example of a human being and of my tribe."
- "These white people think this country belongs to them. They don't realize that they are only in charge right now because there's more of them than there are of us. The whole country changed with only a handful of raggedy-ass pilgrims that came over here in the 1500s. And it can take a handful of raggedy-ass Indians to do the same, and I intend to be one of those raggedy-ass Indians."
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/pictou_aquash/
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